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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.

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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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